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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. This is a term coined by Etienne Wenger to describe “…groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” Did you learn it?

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A Brief Introduction – Communities of Practice Manager

The Learning Circuits

As Ryann mentioned in a previous post, I’m the Community of Practice Manager for Learning Technologies at ASTD. In this role, I engage with the community and help build ASTD’s portfolio of content—from T+D articles to books to educational programs to conferences and beyond.

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with e's

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. More on this tomorrow.

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Mapping mobile learning

Learning with e's

Recently, Lambeth Council''s Andrew Jacobs , Parliament''s Denise Hudson-Lawson and I got together to mindmap some of the more familiar attributes and affordances of mobile learning, and attempted to connect concepts together. We were simply playing with mobile learning ideas, seeing where the links were, and watching for what emerged.

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12+ Books for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

This book is specifically focused on developing scenario-based e-learning, including everything from simple branching scenarios to complex simulations. Learning Communities. Filed under: Communities , e-Learning , Higher Ed , Instructional Design , Lifelong Learning , Tools , Workplace Learning'

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Where is L&D heading?

E-Learning Provocateur

How do you see the impact and importance of big data, adaptive learning, mobile learning and micro-learning? While mobile learning gets a lot of hype – rightly or wrongly – my target audience is office bound. While this isn’t actually mobile learning, it leverages the technology.

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What it means to transform workplace learning

Jane Hart

This is about USING NEW TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE OLD TRAINING PROBLEMS, e.g. by digitizing training and converting classroom into e-learning, and adding in new technologies (and trends) to the same top-down training activities – whether it be mobile learning, micro learning, gamification, and so on etc.